Stephen Chow Quotes

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

I should have just become a manager.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.

Management is different from leadership..

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

I've been on a lot of sets, and I've been around a lot of directors, and I've been working for many years now, but stepping in the shoes of being the decision maker and the guy that everybody is relying on at some point, yeah, it was challenging for sure. One thing is that you're responsible for a large group of people.

Directing? It's an appealing thought, but as far as I can tell, it's a lot of work. Producing is easier. You can tell someone else what to do and then go home.

I'm surprised sometimes at the responsibilities you have as a director.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.